선량감소효과를 위한 저관전압 복부CT의 추적검사에의 적용

• 영문명: Low-voltage Abdominal CT for Decreasing Radiation Dose : Application to Follow-up Examination
• 발행기관: 대한CT영상기술학회
• 저자명: 안수현(Su Hyeon Ahn) 조인완(In Wan Cho) 강성진(Seong Jin Kang) 강래욱(Rae Wook Kang) 유병헌(Byeong Heon Yoo) 김승식(Seung Sik Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『대한CT영상기술학회지』대한전산화단층기술학회지 제8권 제1호, 153~160쪽, 전체 8쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 방사선과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.04.30

영문 초록

Purpose To study the analyse radiation dose, CT number, contrast scale, image quality of the patient who needs periodic follow-up examination by applying abdominal CT using low tube voltage. Materials & Methods To evaluate the image quality of abdomen, radiation dose, CT number and contrast scale follows in change of tube voltage, subjects are divided into two groups. One group is the patients able to be applied in the clinical analysis and the other group vvere used phantom. Somatom Sensation 16(Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) was used. Twenty patient were selected at random in the group which was applied periodic follow-up examination by CT. In this clinical study, tube current was fixed in 150mA, tube voltage was adjusted according to appropriate value of each examinations and then we measured CTDI values. The measurement of CT number of each organs was performed by setting up a lcm diameter ROI at abdominal organs in the same height of first lumbar vertebra by using images of arterial phase. Quality of the abdominal images were graded into the 3 degrees by two radiologists in consensus. Abdominal shaped acrylic phantom was used in phantom study. Ion chamber was inserted into the holes located on the center and periphery of the phantom, and around there, then scaned, and radiation dose were automatically displayed by the reader which were 80kVp, 100kVp, 120kVp, 140kVp of tube voltage were applied to the phantom(diluted contrast medium with water 1:10 ratio), then the phantom was scanned and a 1cm diameter ROI in the center of the image was measured CT number. Results CTDI value was m decreased in 100kVp by 36%(11.70mGy vs 7.50mGy) in comparison with 120kVp. According to radiologist’ evaluation, there were 17 equivalent, 3 acceptable, 0 unacceptable in the group of 20 subjects. Radiation dose in the phantom study showed decreasing as tube voltage was lowered from 80kVp to 140kVp. Peripheral dose decreased by 38%, and central dose decreased by 41%. CT number showed 1365.9±4.4HU in 80kVp, 1046.1±3.7 in 100kVp, 862.8±3.2HU in 120kVp, 737.5±3.0 in 140kVp. Conclusion By applying the low tube voltage using abdominal CT to the patients who need periodical follow-up examination, the quality of the image is relatively high contrast scale without a lowering of image quality and we can decrease the effect of radiation dose.

목차

Abstract

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Ⅱ. 대상 및 방법

Ⅲ. 결과

Ⅳ. 고찰

Ⅴ. 결론

참고문헌

키워드

radiation dose CT number contrast scale CTDI